Linoleum.



'low cost of production, I attribute these To all whom it may concern:

' T UNITD I STATES PATENT WILLIAM B. SNOW, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LINOLEUM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

Application filed February 14, 1908. Serial No. 215,962.

Beit known that I, WILLIAM D. SNOW, a

citizen of the United States, residing at factory product by, first, mixing together twenty-two pounds of 'corn cobs ground to a flour, one pound of litharge, three-fourth of a pound of red lead, four pounds of Peru'- vian ocher, and two pounds of domestic clay, and, then,- intimately mixing suc'h composition with eleven pounds of oxidized linseedoil; the final compositionbeing rolled on a backing fabric and the cloth thus formeddried. A product formed in this manner has been found to, be of superior character by reason of its durability, flexibility, smoothness of surface, closeness of texture, minimum tendency to dry out and crack, and

superior qualities to the incorporation of the fiber, oil and starch foundin the corn cobs, A recognized defect of usuall noleums results from the continuing oxidization in the finished product of the linseed oil contained in it, by which it becomes hard and brittle, curling up and cracking. I have also found that crushed and ground corn stalks may be used ,with advantage, either alone or with reduced cob, in place of either the Whole or a part of the ground cork that is usually employed, with the production of linoleum part of the having characteristics resembling those made by the use of ground cob.

It is to be understood that the leading pur pose of my invention is to utilise the valuable characteristics of what I have called 5 corn products, Whether cobs or stalks, by substituting such products in whole or in part for the usual cork,,saw dustor v like ingredient now used in the production f composition which enters into'fioor s.

' Having described'my invention product with previously oxidized linseed oil.

2. A floor c duced corn product and dized linseed oil. a

3. A floor cloth comprising the combines tion, of clay, a reviously reduced corn product and a previously oxidized linseed oil.

+1. A floor cloth comprising the combination of oclier, a previous] reduced "corn product and previously oxi ized linseed 011.

5. A floor cloth comprising the combination of a lead compound, a clay, a previously reduced corn product and previously oxidized linseed oil. I v I 6.- A floor cloth comprising the combination of approximately two parts by weight of pulverized corn cob and one part by weight of oxidized linseed oil.

7. A floor cloth comprising the combination of ground corn cob containing oil; and

oxidized linseed oil ,Tclair'ni 1. The combination of a reduced corn oth comprising the combina- H tion of a, lead compound, a previously re a previouslv ox1-- y A In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name this seventh day of February, A. 1908, in the presence of the subscribing-witnesses. t

WM. 13. snow. Witnesses;

Aerating. SwAMnAoH, W. LQQoRflIELn. 

